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   Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Carmo

   Carmelite sanctuary with a stone high-altar including allegorical images of Nossa Senhora do Carmo.The sanctuary is situated on top of the Monte de Água Levada, and includes a Friary House.A pilgrimage is held on July 16.
   
   Telephone: +351 252 961 107

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   Santuário da Senhora do Viso

   Carmelite sanctuary. According to tradition the sanctuary was the mother church of the first parish in this community. The settlement of Fontes pertained to the Order of Malta. King D. Sancho I granted Fontes its first royal charter, which was (...)
   
   Telephone: +351 254 914 82

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   Pedra da Audiência

   The Pedra da Audiência is a unique monument of Portuguese civil architecture. Consisting of a table and three benches, all made of granite, it was used as an outdoor court for many trials presided over by an ordinary judge. This small court (...)

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   Igreja matriz de Vila Nova de Foz Côa

   Church from the 16th c. in manueline style.

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   Igreja de Santa Marinha

   The church’s foundation dates back to the 14th century, although it was rebuilt in 1745, in the baroque style, in keeping with the design produced by the architect Nicolau Nasoni.The church’s interior consists of a single nave and its most (...)
   
   Telephone: +351 223 752 862

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   Castelo de Freixo de Espada à Cinta

   Surviving to this day is the unique Torre do Galo. This heptagonal tower was part of the castle rebuilt by D. Dinis. Fragments of the wall go around the Manueline Main Church, a 16th-century temple. The town’s old coat of arms can be seen on the (...)

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   Santuário de São Salvador do Mundo

   The sanctuary consists of ten small chapels scattered all over the hillside, culminating in the one on Monte da Fraga (at an altitude of 711 metres). The panoramic view from the hilltop over Cachão da Valeira and the River Douro is most impressive.
   
   Telephone: +351 254 441 43

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   Castelo de Numão

   Only a few battlements still remain of the wall which once undulated over rocky crags. There are still some of the gates, walls and towers which crowned the hilltop. There are also several anthropomorphic tombs close to the eastern gate.

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   Towns and Villages

   Vila Pouca de Aguiar

   Situated near the the Alvão Natural Park, the area around Vila Pouca de Aguiar still contains a number of remains from its very ancient settlement in the Iron Age (Castro de Cidadelhe), as well as evidence of its occupation by the Romans, such as a (...)

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    Towns and Villages

    Vila Nova de Famalicão

    Famalicão, which was founded in the thirteenth century by the king D. Afonso III, is believed to have existed even before the foundation of the Portuguese nationality as the regional seat of the Terras de Vermoim. Its great development did not, (...)

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